Posted by paul on September 22, 2020 at 09:12:04 from (76.77.197.114):
In Reply to: Re: Oat Harvest posted by paul on September 22, 2020 at 04:34:00:
Oats is a random hobby crop around here any more. Very few small grains any more. Back in the 60s and 70s was maybe 1/4 of the land in oats or wheat Little barley, was even flax back in the 50s.
But we get too much rain and the summers are too messed up for good small grains, our wet clay soils favor corn, corn, and more corn with some soybeans. As well the independent livestock guy turned into either contract growing or super large scale and doesn’t mix their own feed any more, don’t need the patch of oats these days.
I grow a few bu, feed it to my cattle and make some small sales to specialty neighbors, the straw is worth more than the grain these days.
A few folk on lighter soil than me are trying to make some wheat work out again, to help rotate and room for manure, cover crops, etc. but it’s tough, you can’t make yield and protein value in this climate they are opposite each other, can only get one.
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